Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 13 shown for “Tawaraya Sōri” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Morning Glories
Tawaraya Sōri · 18th century

Pine tree and autumn vine
Tawaraya Sori I · late 18th century

Two men returning from cherry blossom viewing
Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

A woman and a wood gatherer under a cherry tree
Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

An old woman sitting on two overturned grave-posts
Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · 1615-1868

A courtesan and her attendant under a cherry tree
Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

Uvigerina sori Haque, 1960
Artist not stated in the record

Viola moncaunica Pau
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1905 to 9 Jul 1905

Gleichenella pectinata (Willd.) Ching
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1923

Davallia griffithiana Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1930

Tectaria crenata Cav.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/1/55

Polypodium lingua (Thunb.) Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1969

Arachniodes sp.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/11/31
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 66 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 12:29 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.